Genre Generator- PB1B

These “genre generator” websites all follow their own conventions depending on what you have searched for and what the site allows you to do. If you search for book title “genre generators,” the website for it will come up and in that website it will allow you to choose a genre, like horror, and it will create a book title that would be good for a horror story. In another genre generator site, consisted of random comic strips. It generated, literally, random comic strips; sometimes the strips did not even make sense from how random they were. The other genre generator I searched was the meme generator. The memes kept changing in what they stated, the wording, yet the use of the same pictures came about frequently. The last website I searched was a team name generator; all you had to do was type in a sport or city and the website will generate a team name.

As I stated before, each of these websites has its own conventions and reasons as to what makes it a “genre generator.” The first website I searched was fantasynamegenerators.com, which presented various genres like horror, sci-fi, and children. In this website, you choose a genre and it creates man book titles for you. For example, for a sci-fi book, the book titles will usually have “Android… Alien… Space” in the title. This makes sense because usually all sci-fi books or movies have to deal with aliens, space, or robots. The titles that appeared were: Aliens and Emperors, Droid from the Portal, and Failing of Robots. The second genre I explored was children and I already knew what to expect from these titles. I thought that they needed to consist of animals, farms, fruits and vegetables, and some other innocent things. And of course the titles that came about were: Foxes of Miracles, Cow on the Moon, and Little Farm. I believe that the conventions that are used in these genres for book titles are very common; we know the things that usually make up a sci-fi or a children book so we can see how this genre generator site creates these book titles by just knowing a genre.

The second website I looked up was the random comic strips website, pandyland.net/random, and the genre of the site was random. The comic strips it created were very random and they sometimes did not make sense, yet they were comic like. They used the same characters in the comic strips, but they would always change the story and dialogue of the strips. I think a convention that exists in a comic strip is having a few separate scenes with each scene having different dialogue and actions.  The third website I searched was the memegenerator.net; in this website you see memes that are based on recent news and everyday things. What I notice as a convention is the use of the same picture for different statements. Usually the picture used always has a hook like, “What if I told you… Not sure if… Brace yourself,” but they change the next part to the meme so that it goes with whatever their goal is. The last website I had looked up was a team name generator site, teamnames.net, and it would automatically create a team name for anything you input. I expected the website to name a team with its conventions; for example in soccer teams there would usually be a FC or SC somewhere, but instead the just generated names like “Soccer Raccoons.” I do not believe this website would help anyone with understanding the conventions of a certain genre as it just created team names that did not really relate to what you ask for.

 I believe most of these websites will help people understand genre better because they usually follow some rule. If you see a book title that has “Aliens” in its name then you would assume that it is a sci-fi book. These genre generators will show you how certain conventions are used for people to better understand genre.

Genre Generator Websites Used:

pandyland.net/random

memegenerator.net

teamnames.net

fantasynamegenerators.com